If you loved Yi Yi, try Una historia de Taipei
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Una historia de Taipei tiene aproximadamente 5.0× votos menos que Yi Yi — es una opción más underground, no una recomendación de masas. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Edward Yang, and they both carry the bittersweet, foreign gem, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Yi Yi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Una historia de Taipei is
Taipei Story is a melancholy rumination on belonging, where a woman trying to outpace the city’s relentless modernization butts against a man whose nostalgia keeps him tethered to a dead-end dealership and a stalled baseball dream. The film sidesteps sentimentality by treating both characters’ obsessions with the same cool detachment. It’s a cinematic time capsule of 1980s Taipei, carried by the director’s signature observational stillness.

